@maddieknicker.bsky.social
Historian of Canada, Indigenous-settler relations, and gender & sexuality at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. White settler on Coast Salish territories. (she/her) 📚🤓🌈☕️
One book to change the narrative.
Championed by Shayla Stonechild, A TWO-SPIRIT JOURNEY by Ma-Nee Chacaby with Mary Louisa Plummer is the WINNER of Canada Reads 2025!
Watch the thrilling final episode here: www.youtube.com/watc...
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#CanadaReads2025
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historians of education in canada: are there any good studies of ontario's separate school system in the post-1945 and especially post-1960s time period? or perhaps any royal commissions, moments of controversy, etc in that same time period? asking for a student
#cdnhist #histed
you don’t mess with the cobra chicken like
06.03.2025 04:01 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A mostly blank page with the words Strong and Free, from the English version of the Canadian national anthem ) Below the fold of this newspaper sheet , in smaller type, news and editorial references to the trade war
This is the first page of this morning’s edition of the Globe and Mail (arguably the English Canadian paper of record)
I don’t remember seeing anything like this before
Indigenous Speaker Series starts tomorrow! Open to the KPU community.
Full details and to register:
form.jotform.com/250496841196...
This is a map of Europe centred on the Holy Roman Empire circa 1600. The map is filled with hundreds tiny and confusing borders and few large states.
As I've been working on this land acknowledgements thing, a lot of people I've talked to have asked me why First Nations have overlapping territories. So I wrote a Substack post explaining it. open.substack.com/pub/rjago/p/...
03.03.2025 19:10 — 👍 115 🔁 28 💬 7 📌 2
Do you know an excellent post-secondary instructor? Are you an excellent post-secondary instructor? Nominations for the 2025 CHA Teaching Awards are now open! Deadline: March 28, 2025. #cdnhist #prize #teaching cha-shc.ca/teachers-lea...
27.02.2025 17:01 — 👍 4 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0Super excited for this dynamic, exciting program at BC Studies this May!
04.03.2025 03:37 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Indigenous History Best Article Prize. Deadline: February 27, 2025. #cdnhist #cdnhistory #indigenous
cha-shc.ca/prizes/
100% agreed!
13.02.2025 01:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Even nice ones that you’ve been expecting can be tough to read. Solidarity!
12.02.2025 22:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Aww that would be awesome but my research focuses on the other coast sadly! Keep me in mind though if you ever wanna do something on teaching queer histories?
12.02.2025 04:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0This sounds great! I finally got my queer histories of N Am seminar approved and I’m running it for the first time next summer. Will definitely draw on this. I did have one Atlantic Canada piece in it when I ran it as a special topics a few years ago, but always happy to add more! Thx for this!
11.02.2025 18:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
In today's post, @oncewilting.bsky.social introduces the series, Queering Atlantic Canada, she will edit this year.
11.02.2025 13:43 — 👍 12 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 1lol sounds like a Regency romance?
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Last fall, Dr. Crystal Gail Fraser (@ualberta.bsky.social) and I launched How I Survived, a podcast about recreation at residential and day schools in the Canadian North that celebrates the strength, resilience, spirit, and creativity of former students and Survivors. www.howisurvived.ca
03.02.2025 18:54 — 👍 18 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 1(toby ziegler voice) and it was elon, WHO NO ONE ELECTED
03.02.2025 14:10 — 👍 101 🔁 9 💬 3 📌 1
"I became a textbook author for a few reasons, the most important being the reason we all write: the possibility of changing people’s minds."
@alanmaceachern.bsky.social's essay is live today.
activehistory.ca/blog/2025/02...
Black history month starts today and this administration would like us to forget it,
01.02.2025 19:34 — 👍 2320 🔁 616 💬 37 📌 25
A "French Canadian" woman circa 1806-1816, from John Lambert's "Travels through Canada, and the United States of North America"; and a woman wearing a comfy. They look similar - both long, hooded, pink, and with white underlay.
How to handle winter: by dressing like it's Quebec circa 1806.
Library & Archives Canada tinyurl.com/5ykubcct
vs. tinyurl.com/mph347e5
#envhist #cdnhist
Today is Lincoln Alexander Day! Alexander was the first Black Canadian member of Parliament (1968), Cabinet minister (1979) and lieutenant-governor (Ontario, 1985). Alexander also served for five terms as chancellor of the University of Guelph. www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/l...
21.01.2025 17:06 — 👍 44 🔁 14 💬 1 📌 0every time i get to the end of a meeting i feel like I need to lie down for 10 days is this normal
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We've got a brand new NiCHE Series CFP! The first of 2025.
Call for Contributors: The Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry at 50
Please email pitches of 200 words in length to Mark Stoller by February 28th!!
niche-canada.org/2025/01/21/c...
#envhist #cdnhist #energyhistory #pipelines
